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On 11/16/05, arielb53 <aribhaviv@...> wrote:

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> > But butter contains fat-soluble activators which would help you absorb

> > the nutrients in the fish! That is unless your already eating it with

> > some cod liver oil.

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> > Price warned against just eating the meat of any animal, including

> > fish. Primitives valued the heads and livers of fish much more than

> > the meat.

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> Well I agree with the 2nd paragraph and also if I had a choice of a

> salmon fillet and calf liver or especially brains I wouldn't

> necessarily go for fish. But if I'm already eating fish and

> calf/chicken liver (not so easy to get fish livers unless you hang out

> at the fish market)...I'm really not sure what is so special about

> butter that justifies the extra calories.

> So I think this topic should be changed to...Is Butter Worth Eating?

>

> Ari

Hi Ari,

For one, it contains a number of antioxidants that you were speaking

so highly of earlier. Second, you don't have to eat butter to get it

benefits. The problem is that most of us are not eating the foods that

would supply what butter supplies, like bugs and blubber. So for us,

as the article below notes, buttter is not only better, it is

essential.

Below is a number of quotes from the WAPF article, " Why Butter is

Better " : http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/butter.html

" ...Butter all but disappeared from our tables, shunned as a miscreant.

" This would come as a surprise to many people around the globe who

have valued butter for its life-sustaining properties for millennia.

When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930's he found that

butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples.

Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church

altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a

sign of divinity in the butter. Arab groups also put a high value on

butter, especially deep yellow-orange butter from livestock feeding on

green grass in the spring and fall. American folk wisdom recognized

that children raised on butter were robust and sturdy; but that

children given skim milk during their growing years were pale and

thin, with " pinched " faces.

" Does butter cause disease? On the contrary, butter protects us

against many diseases.

" Actually butter contains many nutrients that protect us from heart

disease. First among these is vitamin A which is needed for the health

of the thyroid and adrenal glands, both of which play a role in

maintaining the proper functioning of the heart and cardiovascular

system. Abnormalities of the heart and larger blood vessels occur in

babies born to vitamin A deficient mothers. Butter is America's best

and most easily absorbed source of vitamin A.

" Butter contains lecithin, a substance that assists in the proper

assimilation and metabolism of cholesterol and other fat constituents.

" Butter also contains a number of anti-oxidants that protect against

the kind of free radical damage that weakens the arteries. Vitamin A

and vitamin E found in butter both play a strong anti-oxidant role.

Butter is a very rich source of selenium, a vital

anti-oxidant—containing more per gram than herring or wheat germ.

" Butter is also a good dietary source cholesterol. What?? Cholesterol

an anti-oxidant?? Yes indeed, cholesterol is a potent anti-oxidant

that is flooded into the blood when we take in too many harmful

free-radicals—usually from damaged and rancid fats in margarine and

highly processed vegetable oils. "

By the way, Dr. Price considered butter the premier health food.

There's more. Enjoy the article!

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and one that most people consider to be a

'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible

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state of ignorance. "

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